February 6, 2006
Case Study: A Physician's Assistant
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By Jennifer Pilling, MA
The healthcare field is inundated with new products and systems to help streamline patient care and make processing information more efficient. Some seem to cause more work, but occasionally, a product is introduced that completely changes the way the industry functions.
It is becoming more commonplace in the healthcare industry for physicians to carry around a personal data assistant (PDA). PDAs and the like have been available for a while as a tool to make important information easily accessible to physicians, but the systems that operate these PDAs can vary vastly in their effectiveness and offerings. In 1999, software company Epocrates Inc., San Mateo, Calif, released its first mobile clinical product, the free Rx drug reference.
Epocrates tools are continuously updated to help healthcare professionals stay current in the rapidly changing and developing field. The system was developed for physicians by practicing physicians, so the products and content are tailored specifically for the needs of clinicians.
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